Maryland State Fair

She is the girl from a rundown neighborhood who became class president at a posh prep school. A quiet and driven Towson University student. An adoring mother. One of the unofficial leaders of the sisterhood of wives and girlfriends of Ravens teammates.

Janay Ashley Rice is also a woman America has seen knocked unconscious by the man she loves.

The grainy clip of her now-husband, former Ravens running back Ray Rice, punching her in an elevator has been played repeatedly on national media in the past week. Millions have watched Rice dragging her limp body from the elevator.

Pundits have advised the former Janay Palmer to leave Rice, whom she married the day after he was...

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